Overview

Evidence of a nineteenth-century tradition of theoretical discussion about the relationship between chronic pain and pathological lesion, trauma, mood, memory and personality is brought together here for the first time. A wide range of medical texts is surveyed, including pathology, surgery, physiology, neurology, psychiatry and psychoanalysis. We see the medical gaze first penetrate the tissues of the body then extend to examine the language and mental state of the pain patient.

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Author:   Andrew Hodgkiss
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Editions Rodopi B.V.
Volume:   58
Weight:   0.508kg
ISBN:  

9789042008311

ISBN 10:   9042008318
Pages:   220
Publication Date:   01 January 2000
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Abstract Acknowledgements Introduction Secondary Literature Review and Methodological Remarks 1. The Birth of a Problem 2. A Local Irritation. Pain without lesion in the writings of French and British physicians and surgeons: 1820-40 3. Gemeingefühl. German Romanticism, cenesthesis and subjective pain: 1794-1846 4. Reflexion and Depression. Pain without lesion in mid-century German and British ‘neurological' and ‘psychiatric' writings: 1840-55 5. Functional Nervous Disorders in French and British Medical Texts: 1859-71 6. Functional Nervous Disorders in French and British Medical Texts: 1866-1886 7. Psychalgia and Conversion. Pain without lesion in late nineteenth-century psychiatric and psychoanalytic writings: 1872-95 8. Pain ans Psychopathology in Early Twentieth-Century French and German Psychiatric Writings: 1900-14 Conclusions Bibliography Index

Reviews

... Hodgkiss's lucid, readable, and perceptive study provides an exemplary account of the background to one of the most rapidly expanding clinical and diagnostic concepts in contemporary medicine. in: Medical History, April 2002, 46 (2) ...well-researched and incisively written... in: American Pain Society Bulletin, Vol. 12, No. 4, July/August 2002

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Dr Andrew Hodgkiss is consultant Liaison Psychiatrist and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Liaison Psychiatry at St Thomas’ Hospital & King’s College, London. Lacanian Psychoanalyst, Member of the Centre for Freudian Analysis & Research, London.

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